New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INEBRIATES ACT 1912 - SECT 5

5 Voluntary recognizances

(1) Any person may enter into a recognizance, with or without sureties, before a Magistrate that he will abstain from intoxicating liquor and intoxicating or narcotic drugs for the period therein mentioned, not being less than twelve months.
An application to enter into a recognizance under this section shall be in the form of Schedule 2.

(2) A Magistrate, before a recognizance is taken before him under this section or under section 3, shall satisfy himself that the person before him understands the nature and effect of the recognizance, and the consequences of its breach, and shall sign a certificate to that effect in the form of Schedule 3.